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apor Burner. No. 240,789. Patented-April 26,1881.

I wvw/mzA/ ZZ UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE.

. OORNEL VON SZEKRENYESSY AND JOHAN STERN,OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA.

VAPOR-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 2 i,0,-789, datedfipril' 26, 1881.

Application filed December 3, 1880. (No model.) Patented in Austna August 17. 1880, and in Hungary August 17, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CORNEL voN SZEKREN- YESSY and J OHAN STERN, of Vienna, Austria, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Vapor-Burners, (for which we have obtained a patent in Austria and Hungary, Nos. 16,106 and 23,849 respectively, both bcarin g date August 17, 1880,) of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists in the combination, with the rotatable burner and the vaporizingchamber, of a gas tube rotatable with said burner to supply the necessary gas to maintain the vaporization of the hydrocarbon in the vaporizing-ch amber, said gas-tubebeingarran ged for use as a handle to rotate said burner.

The accompanying drawing illustrates our invention by a vertical longitudinal section.

In this figure of drawing, A represents the vaporizing-tube coupled to a feed-pipe, ]3,tha-t is filled with copper shavings or coarse copper filings, and is provided with a regulating-cock, M, interposedin the main supply-pipe leadin gto a hydyocarbon-reservoirlocated above thelevel of the feed-pipe B, to supply the necessary bydrocarbon to the vaporizing-chamber A. Said supply-pipe and reservoir we have deemed unnecessary to showin the drawing, as they may be arranged in any desired or preferred manner and form no part of this invention. The vaporizing-tube has a rectangular passage, L, terminating in a very fine opening in the nipple 0, attached to or formed on said tube, the outer periphery of which is turned perfectly smooth, and has an inverted cone-shaped interior passage, terminating in said fine gas-aperture.

E represents the burner provided with two or more air-inlet ports, D. It is mounted upon the nipple 0, so as to bereadily rotated thereon. The burner E is provided with a tube, F, that projects downward, and is curved, as shown, to form a handle whereby the burner E may be rotated. The tube F is tapering from or near the burner to its upwardly-turned extremity H, that extends underneath the tube A, and terminates almost in a point having a very fine flame-orifice. The tubeAcarries a disk, G, cast or otherwise attached thereto, upon which is soldered a sleeve, K, that surrounds the burner end H of the tube F, and forms a chamber to shield the flame from the action of air-currents. N is a screw that forms a closure for the rectangular passage L, to prevent the escape of gas or oil from said passage.

The operation of the burner is as follows: Hydrocarbon-oil being admitted through the cock M to the feed-tube B, it slowly percolates through the copper shavings or filings with which said tube is filled, and we have found by experience that copper shavings or filings are preferable to any other packing, inasmuch as copper is a better conductor of heat and retains suchmueh longer than any other substance, whether metallic or otherwise, heretofore employed, and consequentlyfacilitates the vaporization of the hydrocarbon, requiring much less heat than is the casein vapor-burners the feedpipe of which is packed with any other material. When a sufficient quantity of hydrocarbon has penetrated the feed-pipe B or the va porizing-tube A the latter or the former is heated until sufticient gas is generated to admit of being ignited at the burner end J, said gas ascending in a fine stream through the needle-perforation in the nipple O and vaporizingtube A, above which said gas is mixed with the necessary amount of atmospheric air entering the burner through ports D. At the same time gas will pass from the burner E through port f into tube F, at the extremity H of which, within the chamber K, said gas is ignited to furnish the necessary heat for maintaining the vaporization of the hydrocarbon and the supply of gas to the burner, which latter, being rotatably mounted on the nipple O, may be turned in an y desired direction, so as to present the broad side of the flame toward that point to which it is desired to throw the greatest amount of light.

Inasmuch as the burner is liable to become heated to such a degree as to preclude its being Having now described our invention, What- We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a Vapor-burner, the combination of the 5 following elements: aheating-chamber, a rotatable burner, an intermediate vaporizing-chamber, and means, substantially as set forth, to conduct the vapor from the rotatable burner above the vaporizing-chamber to the heating- IO chamber below said vaporizing-chamber, and

rotate the burner, as described, for the purpose specified.

2. In a vapor-burner, the combination, with the vaporizing-tube, of a rotatable burner, provided with a gas-tube that projects underneath 15 said vaporizing-tube to supply the necessary heat to maintain the vaporization of the hydrocarbon, said gas-tube being curved to form a handle, for the purpose specified.

3.. The combination of the vaporizing-tube 2 o A, plate G, and chamberK with the rotatable burner E and a pipe, F, terminating Within said chamber, as and for the purpose specified.

OORNEL VON SZEKRENYESSY. J OHAN STERN. Witnesses:

THEODOR EXTER, VICTOR KARMIG. 

